QuickProtect

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A lightweight tray/menu-bar app for viewing live camera feeds from a UniFi Protect controller — no browser or UniFi Protect app needed.

Get QuickProtect

• macOS — Mac App Store (signed, sandboxed, auto-updating) or the free unsigned DMG on GitHub Releases
• Windows — Microsoft Store (signed, auto-updating) or the free unsigned installer on GitHub Releases
• Linux — free self-contained x64 tarball on GitHub Releases (AUR package quickprotect-bin coming)

🖥 macOS

🪟 Windows

Features

• Live camera grid — every camera on your controller in a resizable panel, streamed over RTSP/RTSPS (H.264 and H.265)
• Focus view — click a camera for a single-feed view with fullscreen, fit/fill, mute, and snapshots
• PTZ control — pan, tilt, and zoom PTZ cameras with the keyboard or on-screen controls
• Pinned windows — float individual cameras in always-on-top windows
• Layout profiles — per-profile camera visibility, size, and order (per-display on macOS)
• Global hotkey — open the camera panel from anywhere
• Secondary-lens picture-in-picture — e.g. the package camera on doorbells
• Self-signed TLS support — trust-on-first-use certificate pinning, no system-wide trust changes; credentials live in the OS keychain/secure store
• Multilingual — English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese
• Quality of life — first-run onboarding, launch at login, notify-only update checks, light/dark theming and accent colors

The two implementations track each other feature-for-feature; the remaining platform differences are listed in docs/PARITY.md.

Repository layout

This repo hosts two independent implementations that share behavior, not code:

Folder	What it is
macos/	The original macOS menu-bar app — Swift/SwiftUI/AppKit with a custom RTSP/RTP client. Ships on the App Store and as an unsigned DMG on GitHub Releases.
dotnet/	The Windows & Linux port — one .NET 8 + Avalonia codebase for both platforms, with a custom FFmpeg video engine. Ships on the Microsoft Store, as an unsigned installer on GitHub Releases, and (since 1.3.1) as a Linux x64 tarball on the same releases.
docs/	Cross-platform docs: feature parity between the two implementations, privacy policy, App Store listings, screenshots.
scripts/	Per-platform build & run entry points (see below).

Each implementation has its own README with features, setup, and architecture details: macOS · Windows/Linux.

Build & run

Each platform has a build script (compile only) and a run script (compile, replace any running instance, launch):

# macOS (requires Xcode + XcodeGen)
scripts/macos/build.sh
scripts/macos/run.sh

# Linux (requires .NET 8 SDK; FFmpeg natives via dotnet/scripts/get-ffmpeg.sh)
scripts/linux/build.sh
scripts/linux/run.sh

# Windows (requires .NET 8 SDK)
scripts\windows\build.ps1
scripts\windows\run.ps1

License

Released under the MIT License — Copyright (c) 2026 Christian Bartels.